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...spends his spare time playing (violin, saxophone, clarinet) with the ''Frank Derrick Orchestra," makes another $4,000 a year...
Church bells rang ten times. Two motorcycles roared. Someone honked an automobile horn. Gently, the sound of a violin concerto came through Gene's window...
After 53 years on the concert stage since his childhood debut as a violin virtuoso, Jascha Heifetz, 58, will soon expand his previous teaching activities, be a full professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will teach pupils who will get no grades, credits or medals for their showings. Why this new vocational tangent? "Violin playing is a perishable art," explained Heifetz. "It must be passed on as a personal skill; otherwise it is lost." Then Heifetz fondly recalled his old violin professor in czarist Russia: "He said that some day I would be good...
...Attention, attention, dear comrades," said the Moscow radio. "Listen now to the signals coming in from the cosmos, from the third cosmic rocket launched today." Then came the signals, sounding like hoarse violin notes at A above middle C. By that time, 1 p.m. Moscow time Oct. 4 (6 a.m. New York time), Lunik III was already 67,000 miles from the earth. Britain's big radio station at Jodrell Bank, instructed where to look by a telegram from Moscow, picked up the signal too and held it for 20 minutes. Then the violin notes stopped suddenly...
Benny and Truman will show U.S. citizens where to go to study the history and philosophy of the U.S. presidency: the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. "I'm doing it for Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin to help "pull the Kansas City Philharmonic out of debt." As for the present show: "We want to keep it dignified," said Benny. "And we are," said Truman. "I'll kill myself if it isn't," said Benny. "All right," Truman punch-lined...